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NAACP collecting complaints about police By AL WHELESS and WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writers

Theodous Bryant — who told the Henderson City Council Monday he was a victim of police cruelty — is responding to the National NAACP organization’s request for such complaints from witnesses or victims. Horace P. Bullock, president of the Vance County Branch, said Bryant “is in the process” of filing a statement that will be sent to the NAACP headquarters, along with any other

complaints from the public concerning law enforcement agencies. Bullock added that reports of police misconduct or abuse affecting people of all races can be recorded by calling the branch at (252) 492-0930 or by filling out a form and leaving it at the local office at 315 S. Garnett St., second floor, Suite 208. A press release signed by Bullock stated that: “Public safety is a civil and

of our neighborhoods. “Together, we can change that. Together, we can ensure that our communities receive equal protection and are not treated unfairly by those we trust to protect us. “Tell us about what you have experienced or witnessed. The NAACP will contact the proper authorities and provide you with an answer to your concerns as soon as possible.” Accompanied by Rev. Clarence “C.J.” Dale, Bryant told

Group wants victims, witnesses to file reports human right. We count on law enforcement to provide protection and security in our communities. “However, an act of police misconduct or abuse threatens the legitimacy, fairness and effectiveness of our justice system — and contributes to the violence and victimization in many

Kennedy succumbs to cancer

Embassy Square never made cut as part of project By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

By CALVIN WOODWARD and GLEN JOHNSON Associated Press Writers

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Wes Hight plays guitar with Brain Vacation while a student at Kerr-Vance Academy a number of years ago in Henderson.

KVA graduate seeking an ‘Appalachian high’ By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

Wes Hight — who played guitar for a band called Brain Vacation while attending Kerr-Vance Academy — doesn’t get one while helping put on the Music On The Mountaintop Festival in Boone. The second-annual, ecologicallydriven fund-raiser will be held this Saturday at The Old Fairgrounds in the high country. Numerous groups, including several national acts, will create a blend of Americana, bluegrass, and acoustic funk and folk. Now working in management for Tellski — a golf and ski resort company in Telluride, Colo. — the 2007 graduate of Appalachian State University is spending a month back in North Carolina to assist in getting the large-scale effort to better the environment up and running. “I’m helping take care of every little detail such as alerting the media and mowing the lawns at the fairgrounds where the festival takes place,” Hight said.

“We really hope to grow this into something that will be here 50 years from now,” he added. “The idea is to raise money and give a substantial part of it to AIRE.” The acronym stands for Appalachian Institute for Renewable Energy. The non-profit organization was formed to promote strong economies and healthy environments throughout Central and Southern Appalachia. Among other things, it seeks to reduce the region’s dependence on mountain-top-removal coal mining and additional non-renewable energy sources. AIRE also strives to create economically and environmentally sustainable livelihoods. Last year, a majority of the proceeds from the one-day festival went to North Carolina Green Power and the Appalachian State University Energy Center. Tickets for this Saturday’s event cost $45 for general admission and $40 for students. For more information or to purchase tickets, go to www.musiPlease see GRADUATE, page 4A

The Henderson City Council earlier this week formally closed the book on the David Street neighborhood revitalization project on the northeast side of the city. City Planner Erris Dunston said Community Development Block Grants totaling $771,049 were used to pay for acquisitions, demolitions and rehabilitations, construction Dunston of a playground and improvements to sewer and water, plus a widening and resurfacing of the street. All that is left on the to-do list is to repair a resident’s roof, Dunston said. After no one spoke in the public hearing phase of the matter, Councilman Michael Rainey led the vote for closure. Councilman Michael Inscoe said that, although he had nothing to do with the project, he would refrain from voting because he does consulting work for the Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments. David Street has been in the news for approximately half a decade. In February 2005, U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield and his staff saw first-hand the blight in Henderson as part of a tour of his

congressional district and before upcoming city efforts to lobby the federal government for funding. The tour covered Flint Hill and North and South Henderson. “This is crazy,” one of Butterfield’s staffers was quoted as saying while riding through the David Street area. Butterfield himself later described some parts of Henderson as resembling Third World countries, but noted nothing on the tour surprised him. In June 2005, the city received $653,000 in CDBG funding for a makeover of the David Street area. The city had asked for grant funding as far back as November 2004. David Street was back in the news last fall, when the present council in November reopened the completed project as part of a unanimous vote for what would turn out to be an unsuccessful effort to obtain a $1 million CDBG grant to help pay for a performing arts center at Embassy Square in the city center. The council amended the David Street project to create a sub area in which the performing arts center would be part of what was being called the future Embassy Square Neighborhood Facility. The city intended to use the David Street project to obtain the CDBG grant via the state Division of Community Assistance, with the non-profit Embassy Square Cultural Center Foundation to obtain $7.3 million in private funding. The foundation is the nonprofit fund-raising Please see COUNCIL, page 3A

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Sen. Ted Kennedy

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. — A black shroud with a vase of white roses draped a desk in the Senate on Wednesday. There was no more shock of white hair, booming voice or pointed finger in the heat of debate. Ted Kennedy, the last of the Kennedys who fascinated the nation with their ambition, style, idealism, tragedies — and sometimes sheer recklessness — is dead at 77. With his passing, the Senate lost its dominant liberal and one of its legendary dealmakers. The nation lost what remained of “Camelot,” the already distant era of the

City Council members that he was also the victim of degrading language because of his race, and claimed that an officer physically abused his grandmother. “I feel that I’m treated unfairly,” Bryant said. “I really don’t feel safe around the Henderson police.” Also addressing the Council, Dale claimed that the mother of a man who was shot earlier this summer has been unable to

By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

A Lynne Avenue resident said 29 of his fellow Oxford residents along Lynne Willie R. Pulliam, 80 from Oakridge Avenue Lelia B. Smith, 88 to Valley View Drive are Obituaries, 4A calling for Henderson’s municipal government to install speed bumps. The resident, Jimmie Ayscue, who doubles as a Planning Board member, said a 2003 lowering of the speed limit from 35 mph

to 25 mph has not helped at all. “I don’t expect our police to sit there and monitor traffic all the time, but somebody is going to get hurt on Lynne Avenue unless we do something,” Ayscue told the City Council on Monday evening. Mayor Pete O’Geary turned the matter over to Manager Ray Griffin, who said there is a protocol for evaluations of such requests. Ayscue said the

request is in the form of a petition. Ayscue had lived along Lynne in the late 1960s before moving into a house off U.S. 158 Bypass and living there some three decades before returning to Lynne some six years ago. Ayscue said he has enjoyed living in the city again, “but I never for a day dreamed there would be as much traffic on Lynne Avenue as there is

— and I mean speeders.” “We have seen teenagers racing down Lynne Avenue, side by side,” Ayscue said, noting he has seen three cars racing behind the other at anywhere from 50-60 mph and has seen teenagers hanging out of moving vehicles. Ayscue additionally said there are several elderly residents along Lynne who back their vehicles out of their driveways and, after starting to get going on

Lynne, have other vehicles at their rear bumpers. And Ayscue said after he met every one of his neighbors about the situation, the response was, “Oh, thank goodness we’re going to finally do something.” Ayscue said he knows the “negative side” of having speed bumps. A Dispatch report in 2005 quoted Assistant City Please see LYNNE AVENUE, page 3A

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Mark It Down Today Alive After Five — The Granville County Chamber of Commerce will sponsor its second Alive After Five event of the season from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the parking lot of Ellington-Brim Chevrolet at the corner of Main and Lyon streets in Creedmoor. The event will feature The Fantastic Shakers Band. The public is invited to bring a chair, enjoy the concessions and dance to the music of this well-known and very popular beach music group. Church Watch — The Henderson-Vance Crime Stoppers will sponsor a Church Watch forum at South Henderson Pentecostal Holiness Church from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Star Barbaro will give a presentation on security and protection from terrorism. Pastors and church laity are invited to attend. Chess Club — The Henderson/Vance Chess Club, affiliated with the U. S. Chess Federation, meets at the First United Methodist Church from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. All are welcome, adults and youths, novice or experienced. For more information, call Rudy Abate at 438-4459 (days) or 738-0375 (evenings). Lions Club — The Henderson Lions Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Henderson Country Club. The guest speaker will be District Governor Lion Don G. Henry. He will be speaking on the club activities in District 31-G. Those who are interested in membership in the club should call Randy Oxendine, president, at 438-8034 or send an e-mail to oxendine@nc.rr.com.. Business After Hours — The Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a Business After Hours hosted by Henderson Wellness Center PA and Chick-fil-A at 414 Dabney Drive (Henderson Wellness) from 5:30-7 p.m. There will be great food and assorted beverages along with door prizes! Please RSVP to rsvp@hendersonvance.org or call 438-8414. Only chamber members and potential chamber members are invited!

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Health seminar — The registration deadline is today for a health seminar on Sept. 1 sponsored by Granville Health System on the topic “How do I know if there is something wrong with my heart?” The seminar will be held from 6-7 p.m. in Meeting Room 133 at Vance-Granville Community College’s South Campus in Creedmoor and the guest speaker will be Dr. L. Allen Kindman. A free dinner will be served. To make a reservation, call (919) 690-3447 or e-mail sgmealandmore@ graanvillemedical.com. Truck/tractor pull — The Vance County Fire & Rescue’s third annual National Truck & Tractor Pull will be held today and tomorrow at the Vance County Fairgrounds off U.S. 1 Bypass at N.C. 39. Admission for adults is $15; children 6 - 12, $5; under 5, free. Gates open at 4 p.m. For more information, call (919) 291-9501. Weight loss group — TOWN (Take Off Weight Now), a non-profit weight loss group, will meet at Aycock Recreation Center at 11:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to attend. Recreation Committee — The Oxford City Commission’s Recreation Committee will meet at 9:30 a.m. in the mayor’s conference room on the second floor of City Hall, 300 Williamsboro St. The committee will discuss the basketball court, a water splash park, summer activities for inner city youths and other items. Commission committee meetings are open to the public.

Guidelines The “Mark It Down” calendar announces events happening in the community that are sponsored by civic organizations, nonprofit groups, government organizations and similar groups. The Daily Dispatch staff asks that items intended for inclusion in the calendar be submitted in writing at least five days in advance of the event. Please include a contact person’s name and phone number in case there are questions. Items for this listing can be e-mailed to communitynews@hendersondispatch.com. Due to the overwhelming number of churches served by the Dispatch, church events cannot be listed in the “Mark It Down” calendar.

Some of the new teachers in Vance County Schools for the 2009-2010 talk with administrators after the breakfast that officially welcomed them to local schools on Aug. 12.

New Vance County teachers welcomed to school system Teachers who are new to Vance County Schools were officially welcomed to the district at a breakfast held in their honor on Aug. 12 at Dabney Elementary School. Approximately 65 new teachers attended the breakfast to begin a threeday orientation designed to help them become familiar with local schools, policies and procedures. During the welcoming breakfast, the teachers were addressed in the school’s cafeteria by Wil McLean, executive director of Human Resource Management; Michael Putney, principal of Dabney Elementary; Gloria J. White, chairperson of the Vance County Board of Education; Dan Brummitt, chairman of the Vance County Board of Commissioners; Bill Edwards, president of the Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce; Brenda Lloyd of Henderson Middle School and the Vance County Schools’ Teacher of the Year; Brian Creasman, principal of Northern Vance High School and the Vance County Schools’ Principal of the Year; and Norman Shearin, Ph.D., superintendent of Vance County Schools. White urged the new teachers to challenge their students each day.

“Treat each child special,” she said. “Try your best each day. Leave no child behind, and reach into your heart and give a child a piece of it.” Lloyd, their representative as the Teacher of the Year, praised them. “You are the most noble prize of these worlds,” she stated. She went on to share a story with them about the creation of the ideal teacher, who must have six hands to get all of her or his tasks completed and three pairs of eyes to see all they must see in the classroom. As the representative of local principals, Creasman told them all to have fun and to laugh. “You have to have fun to enjoy teaching,” he noted. Following the breakfast, the teachers were part of breakout sessions which focused on student services, compliance issues, and finance and human resource matters. They also had an opportunity to

meet and talk with representatives of several local businesses and teacher support groups. These included representatives from BB&T, Farm Bureau Insurance, Franklin-Granville-Vance Smart Start Inc., the Vance County Public Education Foundation, H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library, Prudential N.C. 401K, State Employees Credit Union, Vance County Association of Educators, North Carolina Model Teacher Education Consortium, the Pierce Group, Pre-Paid Legal Services, Sylvan Learning Center and The Teacher Store. Over the next two days, they participated in workshops which included topics such as classroom management, state and local instructional standards, curriculum review and training to assist special needs students in the classroom.

Representatives from the Vance County Department of Social Services will hold an adult Medicaid forum on Sept. 2 at 11:15 a.m. in the dining room at the Vance County Senior Center. Vance County residents age 50 and over are encouraged to attend and learn more about adult Medicaid, long-term care and special assistance in-home care. Representatives will be on hand to answer any questions. The senior center is located at 126 S. Garnett Street. For further information, call 492-5001, ext. 216.

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Manager Frank Frazier as saying employees were studying traffic on Lynne Avenue from Oakridge to Coleman Place. While monitoring showed 86 percent of vehicles exceeded the speed limit there, most were traveling less than 40 miles per hour, Frazier was quoted as saying. Then-Councilman Ranger Wilkerson was quoted as saying he had reservations about one potential method for slowing traffic on Lynne — installing speed bumps — because they are a hazard to

emergency vehicles. Wilkerson’s son, Fire Chief Danny Wilkerson, at the time said speed bumps lengthen emergency response times because they require slowing vehicles nearly to a stop. Ayscue told the council on Monday evening that, “We don’t want to stop the traffic. We want to slow it down.” And Ayscue said in requesting action, “I don’t want it to be six years from now. We need some help now.” Councilman Michael Rainey, who doubles as

reach the police detective in the case. Mayor Pete O’Geary and City Manager Ray Griffin said they will check into the matter. The woman, Brenda Henderson, said her son, Rakeem Lewis, was struck by gunfire on June 13. “She has tried to contact the detective, left numerous calls,” Dale added, claiming his attempts to obtain a response failed.

“Not one phone call has been returned.” Police have said Lewis and Christal M. Watson were shot in their backs as they stood in the parking lot behind the convention center at 100 Wortham Court. Noting a previous incident involving himself and police, Dale told the council: “I would hope and pray that this time, something is going to be done and not Artistic Director

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special projects manager and the executive director of the Embassy Foundation, when askedby the Dispatch about the closing of the David Street project, said, “It was a human mistake.” City Manager Ray Griffin last week told the Dispatch that the Division of Community Assistance had declined Henderson’s request for the $1 million grant, with the letter reading, in part, “Based on our review of the proposed amendment documentation and the gap in additional funds needed to complete this proposed project, DAC will not be able to provide CDBG funds.” Griffin had earlier told the Dispatch that the nationwide economic downturn and the changes in the banking industry had impacted the foundation’s ability to raise funds.

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nomic Partnership Chairman Dennis Tharrington, Downtown Development Commission Chairman Jason Stewardson, Vernon Brown, Richard Palamar and former mayor Chick Young. And there had been quite an uproar about the grant application for the second phase, with the Internet blog Home in Henderson in late September reporting that the city government made clerical snafus and submitted “irregularities” in the paperwork to the state. Yount accused the city of being “shadowy” and Councilman Garry Daeke on Aug. 18, 2008, voted against moving ahead with seeking the grant because he wanted better information. Mayor Pete O’Geary in documents said the city had accidentally closed out the David Street project. Kathy Powell, who at the time was both the city’s

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KENNEDY, from page one family dynasty. Edward Moore Kennedy was the last of the famous brothers: John the assassinated president, Robert the assassinated senator and presidential candidate, Joseph the aviator killed in action in World War II when Ted was 12. His own presidential bid a failure 30 years ago, Kennedy just last year jumped into a fractious Democratic presidential nomination fight to side with Barack Obama, giving the Illinois senator a boost that had the air of a family anointment. “For his family, he was a guardian,” Obama said Wednesday. “For America, he was a defender of a dream.” Kennedy will be buried Saturday at Arlington National Cemetery after a funeral Mass in Boston. Also buried at Arlington, the military cemetery overlooking the capital city, are John and Robert Kennedy; John Kennedy’s wife, Jacqueline; their baby son, Patrick, who died after two days, and their stillborn child. To Americans and much of the world, Kennedy was best known as the last surviving son of the nation’s most glamorous political family. Of nine children born to Joseph and Rose Kennedy, Jean Kennedy Smith is the only one alive. To senators of both parties, he was one of their own. “Even when you expect it, even when you know it’s coming, in this case it hurts a great deal,” said Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont. Politicians also calculated the consequences for Obama’s push for expanded health coverage. For several months, at least, Kennedy’s death will deprive the Democrats of a vote that could prove crucial for his signature cause of health reform. His illness had sidelined him from an intense debate that would have found him at the core any other time. Conservative Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, his improbable Republican partner on

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This undated file photo shows the Kennedy brothers, John F. Kennedy, left, Robert Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy, right, in Hyannis Port, Mass. children’s health insurance, volunteerism, student aid and more, said the Senate probably would have had a health care deal by now if Kennedy had been healthy enough to work with him. He was the last of the famous Kennedy brothers: John the assassinated president, Robert the assassinated senator and presidential candidate, Joseph the aviator killed in action in World War II when Ted was 12. He lost his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, less than two weeks ago, saw the bright promise of nephew John F. Kennedy Jr. end in a plane crash in 1999 and struggled with excesses of his own until he became a settled elder statesman. Kennedy was a master orator. But the words that live for the ages seem to be those he uttered in tragedy or defeat. Older Americans remember his eulogy of Robert Kennedy, when he asked history not to idealize his brother but remember him “simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.” Remembered, too, is his

speech conceding the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination to the incumbent Jimmy Carter. “For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die,” he said. By then, his hopes of reaching the White House had been damaged by his behavior a decade earlier in the scandal known as Chappaquiddick. On the night of July 18, 1969, Kennedy drove his car off a bridge and into a pond on Chappaquiddick Island, on Martha’s Vineyard, and swam to safety while companion Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in the car. He pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident; a judge said his actions probably contributed to the young woman’s death. He received a suspended sentence and probation. Kennedy’s legislative legacy includes health insurance for children of the working poor, the landmark 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, family leave and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He was also key to passage of the No Child Left Behind Education law and a Medicare drug benefit for the

elderly, both championed by Republican President George W. Bush. In the Senate, Republicans respected and often befriended him. But his essential liberalism marked him as a lightning rod, too. He proved a handy fundraising foil motivating Republicans to open their wallets to fight anything he stood for. In his later years, Kennedy cut a barrel-chested profile, with a swath of white hair, a booming voice and a thick, widely imitated Boston accent. “I think that once he realized he was never going to be president — that that was not the legacy he had to follow — he really worked at becoming the best senator he possibly could,” Leahy said. “And he did.” He was first elected to the Senate in 1962, taking the seat that his brother John had occupied before winning the White House, and he served longer than all but two senators in history. Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor in May 2008 and underwent surgery and a grueling regimen of radiation and chemotherapy. He made a surprise return to the Capitol last summer to cast a decisive vote for the Democrats on Medicare. He made sure he was there again in January to see his former Senate colleague sworn in as president but suffered a seizure at a celebratory luncheon afterward. His survivors include a daughter, Kara Kennedy Allen; two sons, Edward Jr. and Patrick, a congressman from Rhode Island, and two stepchildren, Caroline and Curran Raclin. Edward Jr. lost a leg to bone cancer in 1973 at age 12. Kara had a cancerous tumor removed from her lung in 2003. In 1988, Patrick had a non-cancerous tumor pressing on his spine removed. He also has struggled with depression and addiction and recently spent time at an addiction treatment center.

GRADUATE, from page one conthemountaintop.com. For facts on the festival and on AIRE, visit http:// today.appstate.edu/music-onthe-mountain/. Hight’s former roommate at Appalachian State, Jimmy Hunt, came up with the festival idea more than two years ago and called Hight. The two friends worked together to make what became a shared dream a reality.

“We wrote up about a 20page plan for it and put it into action,” Hight said Wednesday during a telephone interview. Preparation included talking to business people, as well as to faculty members at the University’s Entrepreneurship Center in Boone. “We wanted to learn as much from the people in the community up here in the

high country as we could before we put this on,” he said. “Jimmy lives in Boone and works on the festival all-year long as the director, so I guess that makes me the assistant director,” Hight explained. About two weeks ago, he came home to Henderson to “hang out” for a few days with his parents, Chip and Barbara Hight, and his grandparents, Bob and Anne

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the County of Vance will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 6:15 P.M. or shortly thereafter in the Vance County Administrative Building Commissioners Room, located at 121 Young Street, 2nd floor, Henderson, N.C. The purpose of this hearing is to inform the public of a program amendment to Vance County’s Scattered Site Housing Grant (CDBG) Program # 07-C-1675. The proposed program amendment will move money from the rehabilitation budget into the relocation budget and change beneficiary numbers. 100% of funding for the Vance County Scattered Site CDBG Grant is provided by the Department of Commerce, through the Division of Community Assistance. All interested citizens are invited to attend this public hearing. Questions or comments concerning the Community Development Block Grant Program should be addressed to: Jerry Ayscue, County Manager County of Vance 121 Young Street, Suite B Henderson, N.C. 27536 The County of Vance is an equal opportunity employer and service provider. Housing rehab and relocation assistance as well as other programs are administered without regard to race, sex, color, creed, religion, handicap, or national origin. Women, minorities and under utilized businesses are encouraged to apply for work through County’s Community Development Programs. This public notice is being provided in accordance with the requirement of the State of North Carolina, Division of Community Assistance guidelines. Vance County uses the following State TDD #: 1-800-735-2962.

Currin. Then Hight traveled to Boone to get ready for this Saturday. While it’s a vacation from his job in Colorado, he acknowledged Wednesday, “I’m running around and doing things non-stop for the festival.”

Willie R. Pulliam OXFORD — Willie Ruth Pulliam, 80, died Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009, at Brantwood Nursing Home. She was the daughter of the late Hubert ‘Doc’ and Flora Smith Allen. She was married to the late Albert Pulliam Sr. She joined Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church at an early age where she served on the usher board for 25 years and was a member of the pastor’s aide. She worked at Orange Street Cafeteria and JFD Electronics, later retiring from Murdoch Center after 32 years of dedication. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today by the Rev. Ray A. Allsberry. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. She is survived by a daughter, Ellarine Alston; two sons, Tai Pulliam of Oxford and Albert Pulliam Jr. of Durham; three sisters, Thelma Hester, Eunice Eaton and Bernice Wiggins, all of Oxford; a brother, Ernest G. ‘Doc’ Allen of Oxford; and several grandchildren. The family will receive visitors at the home of her daughter, Ellarine Alston, 707 Williamsboro St. Allen’s Home of Funerals is assisting the Allen and Pulliam family.

the Granville County school system for over 39 years. She attended North Carolina Central University and earned a bachelor of science degree in mathematics, WinstonSalem State University where she earned a bachelor of science degree in elementary education and Columbia University in New York, N.Y., where she earned a master’s degree in education. She was a member of the Vernon Hill Baptist Church. Survivors include two daughters, Maricia Dalphine Hayes and Norlesia C. Alexander; a brother, Bowman K. Burton Sr. of Emporia, Va.; a sister, Clara B. Isley of Richmond, Va.; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday at Vernon Hill Baptist Church by the Rev. Ollie Ellison. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday with several organizational tributes at the Betts and Son Funeral Home in Oxford. Arrangements are by Betts and Son Funeral Home of Oxford.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the County of Vance will hold a Public Hearing on the North Carolina Community Development Community Revitalization Program for Plan Year 2009 as administered by the North Carolina Department of Commerce. The Public Hearing will be held on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 6;00 P.M. at the Vance County Administrative Building, Commissioner’s Meeting Room, 2nd Floor, 122 Young Street, Henderson, N.C. CDBG Programs are federally funded through the N.C. Department of Commerce to assist local governments with community and economic development projects that primarily benefit low-and moderate-income persons. The CDBG Community Revitalization Program is a grant category under the Community Development Program. A Community Revitalization program project may be defined as a project whose purpose is to use cdbg-funded activities to revitalize, through improvements, preservation or development, a residential area (or two residential sub-areas) delineated by a distinct boundary formed from property lines, streets, or natural topographical features. At the Public Hearing, a review of the regulations and eligible activities will be provided for the Community Revitalization Program category. All interest Vance County Citizens are invited to attend this meeting and make public comments concerning the 2009 CDBG Community Revitalization Program. Questions or comments concerning this Public Hearing of the CDBG Programs may be made to:

Jerry L. Ayscue, County Manager Vance County 122 Young St., Suite B Henderson, North Carolina 27536 Telephone: 252-738-2001 Vance County does not discriminate due to age, sex, familial status, religious preference, handicap, national origin, sexual preferences, race color or creed. Assistance or special aids for the handicapped are available upon request prior to meetings. Vance County uses the state TDD number which is 1-800-735-2962. Vance County is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and invites qualified under utilized businesses as well as businesses that are owned by or who utilizes the employment of women and or minorities to inquire about and bid on work.

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Cash for Clunkers generates 700,000 new car sales WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Department says the popular Cash for Clunkers program generated nearly 700,000 new car sales and came under the $3 billion budget for the monthlong program.

The government said Wednesday dealers submitted 690,114 vouchers totaling $2.88 billion in the program, which ended Tuesday. Toyota, Honda and Nissan accounted for 41 percent of the new vehicle

sales. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler had nearly 39 percent. The Toyota Corolla was the most popular new vehicle purchased under the program, followed by the Honda Civic, Toyota Camry and Ford Focus.

Boeing may expand S.C. plant for next-generation 787 production CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Boeing Co. is seeking permits to expand its South Carolina plant, one of several being considered for an assembly line for its

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